Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Princess Party Favors

I know I've said this before and I'm sure I'll say it again, I think the Petal Cone Die may have been my single smartest Stampin' Up! purchase ever. Tooting my own horn...Toot, Toot!, but I think these little princess hat favor boxes are so cute! If you wanted a circus theme, you could easily top these with a pom-pom to make tiny clown hats or with a frill of shirred paper to make a"party" hat.

1. For each hat, use your Big Shot (or similar machine) and cut 2 shapes using the Stampin' Up! exclusive Petal Cone Die. Cut one in half down the score line. In these pics, I was using cardstock, so I stamped and embossed the images at this point. Not necessary if you're using Designer Series Paper.

2. Trim off a bit of the half-circles on both sides to allow the box to close correctly. Easier to do it before you begin assembly rather than after, like I did here :)

3. Apply Sticky Strip to tabs; you won't need the piece you cut off that has no tab. Fold an 8"-10" piece of ribbon in half and adhere it to the top of one of the tabs.

3. As if you were using a curling iron, wrap the ribbons around the handle of a paper piercer, dowel or pencil. Heat ribbon with Heat Tool for 10-30 seconds, more or less. This depends very much on the type of ribbon you are using. The more polyester content, the quicker the curl will set. It's not that hard to melt 100% polyester ribbon or set all-cotton ribbon on FIRE when what you really want is a curl, so use caution and common sense! Allow the curls to cool undisturbed for a minute then arrange them to your liking.

Hard to see the sparkle in this photo, but the Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder with Versamark is very sparkly and pretty.

For the projects shown above, I used the Modern Label punch, Season of Friendship stamp set, Short and Sweet stamp set, Calypso Coral CS, Whisper White CS, Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder, Brights Patterns Stack DSP, Stampin' Up! white taffeta ribbon and some ribbon scraps from gifts. I hoard anything pretty that could be used for crafting, so it's nice to justify that craziness by using the stuff occasionally! The hat below uses retired Specialty DSP (with glitter, of course) and retired pink ribbon along with the Boho Blossoms and Modern Label punches.

So the boys didn't feel left out, I made some magician hats with Basic Black CS (Night of Navy would work great, too). I stamped them with White Craft Ink and the star is from the Every Little Bit stamp set.

I don't have a tiny crescent moon stamp, so I made one! I just cut the shape from a piece of the scrap rubber that you get with every stamp set.

Hope you enjoyed these as much as the kids at the party did! Let me know if you try your own...

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